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From the capital of the Confederacy in 1862....
From the capital of the Confederacy in 1862....
Item # 705403
August 12, 1862
DAILY RICHMOND EXAMINER, Virginia, Aug. 12, 1862
* From the capital of the Confederacy
Not just a newspaper from the Confederate, but from the capital of the Confederate states. The front page has: "Important From the North--Call For 600,000 More Men--A Draft to Be Immediately made" "From Culpeper" "From The South Side" "Changing His Base" with the bulk of the front page taken up with a lengthy list of Acts of the Confederate Congress, many relating to the Civil War.
The back page includes: "The War In The North--The Yankee Capital in Council on the War--Addresses of President Lincoln, General Shields...--Three Cheers For the Hanging of Mumford, etc." and other items relating to the war. There are several "General Orders" on the war which take most of the last column.
Complete as a single sheet newspaper with a full banner masthead, various foxing & light staining throughout, a bit irregular at the bottom margin.
AI notes: In 1862, facing mounting Union casualties and setbacks in the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued two major calls for troops that together amounted to 600,000 men. On July 2, he called for 300,000 volunteers to enlist for three years, responding to urgent military needs following the failure of General McClellan's Peninsular Campaign. Just a month later, on August 4, Lincoln made a second call for an additional 300,000 men, this time utilizing the recently passed Militia Act of 1862, which allowed the federal government to draft state militias if volunteer quotas were not met. These men were to serve for nine months, and the call marked the first significant use of conscription authority by the Union. These troop calls were crucial in bolstering the depleted ranks of the Union Army and signaled a turning point in how the North mobilized manpower for the war, reflecting Lincoln’s growing willingness to use the full power of the federal government to preserve the Union.
Category: Confederate
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